Phairra Jones

“War Pigs”
I felt compelled to create this piece after witnessing the genocide taking place in Gaza. It began in October of 2023 and is still occurring today. Their hospitals and their schools have been bombed and destroyed. All laws of warfare have been broken, yet we are still witnessing the continues terrors occurring in the Middle East being funded by The country I reside in. My main question is how can any human bring themselves to create such damage? How does one hold so much power to be the decider between life and death of a whole country. I have many questions that I know will be difficult to answer.

During the choreographic process, I realized how intergenerational this feeling was. The feeling of hopelessness and despair. This feeling of helplessness and the want to help but having no clue how. World War l & ll, the Korean War, the Vietnam war, the Dessert Storm! There are Americans alive today that lived through witnessing All these wars take place on the news. There are Americans alive today that fought in these wars. All the people affected, all the lives taken, all the money waisted, for what? To draft young men and pull them from their family’s that they are providing for and protecting from this already crazy world, for what?
I will never understand the business of war, how there are resources so important that they are worth killing for. As a child that comes from a large military family myself I wanted to depict what I see when it comes to war. The most glorified form of human trafficking.

Thank you to my actors @austinfranz13 @dylan.erwin_
Thank you to my flag bearers @hovey.alyssa @sakkara_nicole